Removal of everything between two characters in Ms Word

Question

I need a pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters. An example would be:

<blah blah blah>Something I want <blah blah>really bad<blah blah>

becomes

Something I want really bad

How would I go about doing this? I have looked up the word search patterns and tried using them (to no avail). If Word won't do it, is there an online tool that could?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 10 '15 at 09:16

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I need a search pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters.

Set "Find What" to \<(*{1,})\>
Set "Replace with" to an empty string.
Check "Use wildcard"

Notes:

< and > are special characters that need to be escaped using \
* means any character
{1,} means one or more times

Removal of everything between two characters in Ms Word

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I need a search pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters.

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